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Router for business VoIP

Business VoIP router installation

As business VoIP or hosted VoIP service grows in
popularity, creating the best office network for a long term high quality stable
voice network becomes an important part of the installation process.
One of the first considerations after choosing which business VoIP provider's
service, would be the router to handle your office network. One
exceptional choice would be a Linksys model that is capable of being flashed
with an open source software (Linux based) called Tomato. These routers
are available on the open market like Ebay already with Tomato installed for
anywhere from $50.00 to $75.00. Tomato software is relatively easy to
configure and handles VoIP calls very well giving voice priority over data.
A router that would compare could easily run $600.00. Quite a good deal.

Tomato router handles VoIP well.

As far as routers go, some older Linksys routers may
have larger memory capacities than some of the new ones and some of these are
capable of having a Linux based open source software installed (Tomato or ddwrt)
that is much more robust and capable. One such Linksys model
would be the popular wireless WRT54G. We have put together some
configuration settings with Tomato screenshots
for ease of your VoIP installation. This router option is worth every
dollar spent and in actuality is worth hundreds more; well worth it.

Setting QoS priority for Voice

Installing business VoIP right from the beginning
can make a very stable and successful VoIP installation.
Choosing the right router is as important as any other aspect of the
installation, including which business VoIP provider, the IP phones, and the
other network infrastructure in your office.

Tomato router important for VoIP installations.

Using an open source software like Tomato, which has a good VoIP QoS
configuration setting, makes your VoIP calls have a better quality when network
conditions are less than ideal. These are the times that users tend to
experience choppy voice, or bad quality calls. With Tomato the voice
traffic is prioritized over the other data to move through the network without
delay. This makes for better quality VoIP and also allows the SIP
signaling to travel unhindered back to the VoIP provider, bypassing congestion.
Today Internet service providers are offering larger bandwidth services for
lower costs, so typically these issues may not arise, but often when network
conditions, like video streaming, etc. are done by employees the VoIP traffic
(voice) can suffer. Tomato sorts all this out, something typically a
$1000.00 router would only be capable of.